Castlepalooza Music Festival 2013 - Aug 2nd - 4th

don't forget that if you like a drink, you can add on the cost of not being able to bring your own, and have to buy "reasonably priced" alcohol from them at €50 for 24 cans (Stoya/Kopparberg/something else), about €30 more than supermarket. so if you usually bring a slab of cans to a festival, it's basically €89 per ticket.

that said, thinking about going this year. will probably wait for the lineups between this and Indiependence, and decide then.

Went last year for the first time and well enjoyed, great atmosphere, delish grub, lovely folks and everything despite the atrocious weather. Discovered a lot of great new acts as well as getting to see one of my fave bands live too!

ShriekingSheet wrote: »

The drink thing never bothered me. At other festivals you can bring booze in, but have to drink it in the campsite or pay €5 a pint if you want to drink "at" the festival. Being able to buy cans and drink them at the main stage is kind of balances out the dearness.

didn't realise you can bring them in to the main area with you, definite advantage so. i often waste half the day at other festivals sitting around drinking in the campsite because it's too expensive to be doing that at acts all day with the price of pints from the bars. would much prefer to gather up my lot and have them do their drinking while in watching the smaller bands early in the day.

ghostdancer wrote: »

didn't realise you can bring them in to the main area with you, definite advantage so. i often waste half the day at other festivals sitting around drinking in the campsite because it's too expensive to be doing that at acts all day with the price of pints from the bars. would much prefer to gather up my lot and have them do their drinking while in watching the smaller bands early in the day.

Well that's exactly it. You buy (and obviously drink) the cans within view of the main stage, and 100 yards from the big top.

You definitely can get cheaper beer in Tesco. But I hear their line-up isn't great this year.

lc180 wrote: »

The organizers mentioned on Facebook that the lineup will be announced very soon.

They are quite late announcing it, doubt I'll go now as I'm already hitting Forbidden Fruit and Longitude this summer.

Is there any rumours floating around about the possible lineup?

Yes very late this year revealing the line up

http://www.phantom.ie/page/190.195/2493/0/Ghostpoet,_ASIWYFA_&_Luke_Vibert_for_Castlepalooza

The Castlepalooza announcements have begun with Ghostpoet, And So I Watch You From Afar and Luke Vibert all confirmed for the Co. Offaly festival.
Charleville Castle in Tullamore will again host the eighth edition of the festival on the August Bank Holiday weekend (2nd, 3rd & 4th).

A three-day camping pass will set you back a ridiculously cheap €79, with day passes costing €35. The full line-up announcement will be with us later.

lc180 wrote: »

Did Ghostpoet not headline last year also??

Did play but not one of the headlines - played the main stage before Charlatans if I remember rightly.

Full line up is out. Very impressed with this.

http://www.castlepalooza.com/line-up-2013.html

additions:
CSS, Tieranniesaur, Overhead The Albatross, Benny Smiles, Tiny Vinyls, Meltybrains?, J Roots, Come On Live Long, Born Cheating, Bentley Riddims, Watsonace and Mr Whippy Soundsystem and Lex Woo.

bestleftfull3 wrote: »

is there only the castle campsite this year?

from what i can remember wasn't there a moat one outside the castle grounds??

Wasn't there two other campsites? Definetely a moat one alright.

TakeTheVeil wrote: »

€40 tickets are sold out it seems - back up to €80.

I missed out waiting for payday it seems

Same here, i'll probably still end up going though heard good things.

Moat tickets now available for 50 quid

moat is just outside the castle grounds from what i remember !!

Was looking at the line up on their website and a lot of the links to the artists did not work, Palooza wouldn't be as detailed as Life or Body & Soul festival for dance or techno, but theres a scattering of electronic stuff and DJs there.
Cheepax Acid Crew is Richard D James (Aphex Twin) brother and Luke Vibert has often done shows with Aphex Twin.
For the rest of the line up:
DJ Bolts: From Liverpool blends hip hop, funk & soul with everything in between.
Born Cheating: Mash Up DJ that plays Asian and Middle East electronica.
Clu: AV DJ or VJ
Daithi: Fiddler - fusing traditional with electronica.
DJ Baz: no info on this guy.
Duncan: Scottish DJ and VJ.
Ghost Poet
Le Galaxie
Sert One
The Cyclist: From northern Ireland - Electronica & techno
Tu-Ki
The rest of line up is bands, folk and some reggae.
Hope that helps dude.

kraggy wrote: »

Anyone know If any of the artists are more deep house or disco or even electronic? Not a fan of acidy stuff.

And can you literally bring your own drink and drink it at the gigs themselves? If so, I really like the sound of that.

Finally, are the crowd usually friendly? Might have to go my own.

Ive never been before but afaik you cant bring any of your own drink into the campsite but theres a pricy off licence to buy cans. The campsite and arena are one large area though so said cans can then be brought anywhere inside.

Can someone tell me how far the campsite is to the car park? The 2010 thread mentioned having to get a bus/taxi back there

Set times have been announced btw.

Any idea when they will release booze prices and type of beers available? I see they have their timetable up on the app but no booze info yet. Cheers